Senior Technical Artist

Epic Games
Cary, NC, USA
Job type: Permanent

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Job Description

What makes us Epic?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.  

Art at Epic

What we do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What you’ll do

Epic is looking for experienced Tech Artists to join our team working on Fortnite. A successful candidate should have a broad knowledge of art creation for games.  They should understand modeling, texturing and animation fundamentals. They should be able to combine geometry, materials, effects and UE4 Blueprints to create complex art.  They should be able to work with a large team supporting the more technical aspects of creating art.

In this role, you will

  • Create complex materials for characters, weapons and environments.

  • Establish workflows and tools for other artists to utilize when making unique assets.

  • Execute on a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized

  • Work with engineers and artists to optimize content for many platforms. 

Skills & Requirements

What we’re looking for

  • Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed game tech art.

  • Good understanding of PBR principles and material editors

  • Ability to pull many different asset types together to create art for a game.

  • Experience modeling and using texturing packagers such as Substance Designer and Painter

  • Abilities in a secondary areas such as modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting

  • Desire and knowledge of how to push Unreal Engine further.

  • Desire to work with a team, supporting other content creators such as modelers, texture artists etc.

  • Familiarity with the Unreal 4 Engine art pipeline

  • Experience working on multiple platforms

  • Scripting experience Blueprint or other

  • You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do. 

Additional Information

  • Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

About the Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.

Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.